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Foreign policy emerges as potential point of friction between EU and new Greek government
PoliticsForeign PolicyForeign policy, rather than bailout terms or debt relief, is emerging as the first potential point... with emerging new powers,” he said. Unusually, there was a small point of conflict during... create an immediate point of friction between Athens and its European partners, particularly
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Greek banks set for early ELA return in apparent precautionary move
Economyrequests for ELA funding at some point in February, particularly because collateral of 21 billion euros... amount of state guarantees was set at a maximum of 23 billion euros and that threshold was later
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Controversial labour law set to usher in radical changes to employment practices
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy is moving ahead with draft legislation set to introduce sweeping changes to employment law. The bill, which introduces controversial concepts such as “zero hours” contracts, has been... up until this point, with attention focussed on the aftermath of the Thessaly floods and the SYRIZA
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Rivalry between New Democracy and PASOK set for revival
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor ND stands at 22.5 pct, up half a point from September, while PASOK’s backing has risen to 15.3... Stefanos Kasselakis is set to launch his own party. When these numbers are projected into an election
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Don't celebrate a French reconnection for EU just yet
Agoraround, this is not a level of support to be dismissed, especially given her dominance in the east... that roughly half of Greek voters had backed parties that flirted with, or were dead set on, Greece leaving... but this misses the point that extremists do not necessarily want to be in power when they can
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Tsipras makes his point in Moscow but leaves with nothing tangible
PoliticsGreek Politicsannouncements. What was the point? All this then leads to the question of what Tsipras’s talks in Moscow... to stress (he referred to this point several times during the news conference) that Greece is a sovereign
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Starkly different solutions presented as govt nears lockdown decision point
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs Greece’s Covid-19 statistics show no signs of improvement, the government in Athens is reaching a decision point on both the nature and the duration of its lockdown measures. On Monday, PM... with 38 pct, giving it a 15-percentage-point lead over second party SYRIZA. KINAL was third with 7.5
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Covid rears its head again as ND reaches halfway point in tenure
PoliticsGreek PoliticsEven though Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is trying to play down the government reaching the halfway point in its two-year term in office, the unofficial performance reviews being conducted... standards uptake among elderly Greeks – is a weak point for Greece’s vaccination programme. He noted
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IMF trims 1 point off 2022 growth, makes major revision to inflation forecast
EconomyMacroeconomypoint to 3.5 pct, slowing further to 2.6 pct in 2023 and down to just 1.2 pct in 2027. According... of time and this has been the main point of contention with the eurozone on the sustainability of Greek
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Greece's pursuit of normality has only one starting point
Agorais expected at 2 percent of GDP and 2.5 percent of GDP in 2018, substantially lower than the targets set... in good faith it complies with the surveillance procedure it can largely set aside those
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